Students' conceptions of assessment and mathematics: Self-regulation raises achievement

Australian Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 63-74

  Brown, Gavin T L ^a   Hirschfeld, Gerrit H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Conceptions; Mathematics; Secondary school students

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247553307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14465442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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